The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-11-04
PEOPLE AND EVENTS.

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, land.
Senator Hale writes from German
that he expects to sail for home thi
week.
Il Tom Ochiltree says that James Gordo
Bennett came to America to edit his ne,
paper in Paris.
, Professor Callett, late State Geologis
of Indiana, says that eagles yet roos
along the Wabash.
The Ohio Society in New York Git
has membership of nearly 400, and
looking for permanent quarters.
The Duke of Argyle's rent roll ha
been seriously diminished by the rem
adjustments of the Crofters' Commission
Deer are doing so much damage to TIN
crops in Grass Valley, Cal, that Indian
are employed to guard the fields b,
night and day.
Mr.. Whistler proposes to open tn
winter exhibition of the Society of Brit
ish Artists by full dress private view il
the evening.
| Mr.. James Russell Lowell has relet hi
"Elmwood" home at Cambridge to Mrs
Ole Bull, and will remain abroad all win
ter.
, The Royal Engineer Corps of England
will erect a splendid monument to Gen
eral Gordon at the School of Militar,
Engineering, Chatham.
Gladstone is a firm believer in the gooC
of athletics, and his son, Herbert Glad
stone, is the president of Nationa
Physical Recreation Society.
Count Mitkiewicz has leased the hand
some house in Washington formerly oc
cupied by Secretary Manning, and will
stay there with his family for year.
John Bright, the eminent Quaker
statesman of Great Britain, has written
a letter to an English provincial newspa
per strongly condemnIng church fairs.
Mr.. Blaine has written a congratula.
tory letter to Colonel Fred Grant, and
depressing his heartiest sympathy with
Mr.. Grants candidacy for Secretary Of
State.
Mr.. Ivan Panin, a clever young Rus.
sian, who was graduated five years age
at Harvard, is about to deliver a course
of lectures in Boston on the more famous
Russian writers.
Judge Lawrenson, of Baltimore, cele.
brated the sixty-eight anniversary of his
connection with the government service
last Wednesday. He will be So years Of
age next March.
Murat Halstead says that Mr.. Blaine
did not attend the dinner at Lord Sails.
bury's to which he was invited, and al
which he was reported to have used
language uncomplimentary to the Irish
A German financier by the name Of
Sandband has just failed at Berlin.
John L. Sullivan, the Boston bruiser
will sail for Europe in the Cephalonia
to-day.
Colonel w. F. Cody has netted $4,000
or $3.50, 900 out of his Buffalo Bill season
in London. So says Edmund Yates.
Chesley Heal, of Searsmont, Me-, is
said to be the oldest man living in Am.
erica. He is l0S years old, and is vet,
eran of the war of 1912.
The Stuart Monument Association has
purchased fine granite shaft TO mark
the spot where the rebel general, J. E.
B. Stuart, was MORALLY wounded.
NJ. Flameng has presented to the
Theatre Francois his painting of "Victol
Hugo on His Death-bed." 1t has been
placed by the side of the portrait Of
Moliere.
Edmund Yates says that Mr.. Wash.
burne evinced special kindness for En-,
glishmen while in Paris, and adds that
che was favorite everywhere, and 8
most genial, true-hearted man."
Marshal P. Wilder, the professional
humorist and story teller, has been des'
cribIng some of his old friends at Jamai
ca, T.. l., in one of his lectures, and the
people there are demanding an expla'
nation.
John B. Stetson, the Philadelphia hat
maker, employees 800 men, women and
children, and has Sunday school Of
800 scholars in connection with his
factory, The chapel where the schoo
meets cost 10000.
Harriet Beecher Stowe says that af
ter seeing many of the finest cities both
in the old world and in the new she has
concluded that Hartford, Conn.,, is the
most beautiful city as place of resi-
ldence on earth.
Mr.. Pen. Browning, the artist, Rob
ert Browning's only son, was married
to Miss Fannie Coddington, an Ameri
can girl, Oct IL. After short honey
moon on the continent Mr.. Browning
will visit the United States with his
bride.
/ Moody and Sankey have decided not
to engage in tabernacle work any more
Except occasionally. The reason they
give for making this decision is that ex.
perience shows that better results can
be accomplished by laboring directly
with the churches.
A turtle was recently Matched out In
the parlor of a Jersey City woman from
an egg which she brought home as a
souvenir of a trip. 1t was placed on the
card-receiver, where it remained until
Matched.
A fashionable church in Cincinnati is
all torn up over the fact that woman
of doubtful reputation attends all the
services. The congregation proposes to
dismiss the pastor because he will not
ask the woman to stay away.
The good works of Herrn Krup D
and Grillo have already been remarked
upon. Now comes third great Ger
man manufacturer, Herr Ebbinghaus, OF
Iserlohn, and on his silver wedding
gives TO his native city the sum of $75,-
600 for the public good.
Among Christmas novelties are eleven
reproductions from water colors by
Ross Turner. "a Sunset at Cape Ann .
t'Morning at Venice" and RED and
Pink Roses" are most effective. Long
fellows home in miniature serves as
paper box. The chimneys are for post
age stamps. Under the cover is a por-
trait of Longfellow.
Mrs. L. H. Darragh, of Philadelphia,
who painted the portrait of Grant pre-
scented by Mr.. q. w. Childs to the West
PointAcademy, is at work on compan-
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